[Uaflug] Apology

[Walker Wheeler]

You would probably want the account locked for any remote service. And
the biggest thing to worry about would of course be privilege escalation.

And for locking someone out of cron /etc/cron.deny (man crontab) should
do it on some systems. The username must be listed there. FTP and samba
also have similar lockout mechanism.



Walker Wheeler
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907.474.7173
University of Alaska - Fairbanks
OIT Core Applications Services
Systems Programmer
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Paul Swanson wrote:
> Well, there are some things I miss about XP, like... uh... wait. No.
> Nothing.
> 
> In an attempt to make this a learning experience, let me figure out
> how to set up a guest account in KDE.
> 
> First, create a guest account. Go to System Settings | User Management
> | Administrator Mode | New
> 
> enabled, name: guest, no password.
> 
> Now go to the K menu, click Switch User, and Lock Current & Start New
> Session. The sessions will be in different virtual terminals
> (Ctrl+alt+f7, etc).
> 
> A question of security; is a guest account with no password (or an
> essentially worthless password like 'guest') a risk? If it doesn't
> have root access, what could be exploited?
> 
> -Paul
> 
> On 4/26/07, Seth de l'Isle <szoth at ubertechnique.com> wrote:
>> But which is the more embarrassing in the context of the Linux Users'
>> Group: Making an obnoxious post while drunk, or getting
>> derfed[1]?
>>
>> Glad to hear that you aren't the kind to get so snookered that you
>> develop feelings for XP! ;)
>>
>> [1] http://home.att.net/~srschmitt/jargonfile/jargon_file-173.html
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:30:17AM -0800, Paul Swanson wrote:
>> > That last message was not me. The security of my machine was
>> > compromised (via me not locking my machine when I was away).
>> >
>> > Sorry,
>> > Paul
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